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Superman’s Bad Day

Even superheroes strike out sometimes

This post really should be titled ‘The Power of Failure’, but that sounded too much like the title you’d see for some kind of wacky TV self-help show which you accidentally end up watching in those insomniac hours between night and morning.  Plus I rather liked the photo, taken outside a museum in Berlin. The plaque next to the statue reads ‘Even Superman has bad days.’ How completely correct: even  superheroes mess things up sometimes, and no doubt they are more well-rounded beings for it (well as much as you can be when you’re a cartoon character. Maybe they go from 2D to 3D).

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Athletically Challenged

Despite many sporting failures, I continue to try (and fail)

I made the most amazing discovery last week; so amazing that I was still thinking about it at 6.20am the next morning, as I bounced on a mini-trampoline in a room full of sweaty strangers. No doubt I had a strange smirk on my face, a combination of child-like glee at being on a trampoline before breakfast and remembering my discovery.

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